Report from the OH&S Canada magazine (Summer 2024)
A small construction company and its director have been fined $117,500 after pleading guilty to violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act in an Ontario court.
Blog Post #1671 – Construction Company Fined $80K After Two Workers Injured
Report from the OH&S Canada magazine (Summer 2024)
Amico Contractors Inc. has been fined $80,000 after two workers were injured falling from a work platform.
Blog Post #1669 – Stockyard Fined $325,000 After One Worker Killed and Another Injured
Report from the OH&S Canada magazine (Summer 2023)
On May 14, 2024, Spiritwood Stockyards (1984) Ltd. pleaded guilty in Spiritwood Provincial Court to two violations of The Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, 2020.
Blog Post #1668 – Workplace Injury Results In $55,000 Fine for Toronto Rubber Products Manufacturer
Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Rubber Technologies Corp. of Toronto, Ontario was critically injured while trying to clear a blockage from a machine. By failing to ensure the motion from a rotary valve was stopped before cleaning, National Rubber Technologies failed to ensure that the measures and procedures as prescribed by section 75 of Ontario Regulation 851/90 were carried out at the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.